Space Marine 2 crashes to the desktop

[BOT Ksawery]

Hi all,

I'm having some issues with Space Marine 2 and was wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar. Here are my PC specs:

GPU: RTX 3060 TI
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
RAM: 32GB 3200MHz (XMP ON)
After installing the game, I initially had severe lag that would cause my PC to restart (no blue screen of death). I updated everything I could—BIOS, chipset, GPU drivers, etc. The lag issue is mostly gone now, but the game still randomly freezes and crashes to the desktop at various points.

I’ve tried a bunch of solutions: running as admin, adding the game to antivirus exclusions, tweaking the page file, and so on, but nothing seems to help.

Is anyone else facing these kinds of crashes? I’m starting to wonder if enabling the XMP profile might be causing problems. What’s strange is that only Space Marine 2 is affected—other games work flawlessly.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[huhanka bleba]

have the same trouble. Now im gonna turn off overlay, mb it could help

[Chronologger]

Try some of these fixes, apparently they've worked for other people

DISABLE EAC;
"disable EAC. Found on framedsc. But with the caveat, I still BSOD crashed after a few hours of play, but at least it got me through a few missions.

To disable the EAC, please go to the folder <steam installation folder>\Space Marine 2\client_pc\root\bin\pc and create a new bat file, e.g. rungame.bat and open it in notepad. Paste the following lines in the file and save it:

set SteamAppId=2183900
set SteamGameId=2183900
"Warhammer 40000 Space Marine 2 - Retail.exe""

RESET BIOS;
"Consider resetting BIOS or lowering your Over Clock settings if you overclock.

It seems to be a problem with the game interacting with Intel chips with aggressive OC settings. I have an Intel I9 14900K, and had it running other games fine with aggressive overclock settings, but whenever I launches this game it goes a Blue Screen of Death. I had to reset bios. Game has since run with no issues, so I've just re-overclock my settings around it."

POWER SETTINGS;
"set you power options on power saver. Somebody gave me the tips and it worked for me ever since.
That's a good workaround until they update and get the optimization better"

COMPATIBILITY MODE;
"had the same issue, game constantly crashed on intro,
go to \Steam\steamapps\common\Space Marine 2\client_pc\root\bin\pc
right click warhammer 40000 space marine 2 - retail.exe, right click then properties, click compatability and run compatability mode for windows 7. stopped crashing after i did this but only if you launch the retail exe iteself."

[JaK]

try turning off overlay

[BOT Ksawery]

I think I have an important UPDATE!
I just remembered that I had similar issues on my old PC, where after overclocking the RAM, graphic programs would break in the same way as this game. So, without thinking much, I went into the BIOS, and with XMP enabled, I lowered the RAM frequency from 3200 to 3000. I just played the game for 2 hours with 0 issues!